Shorts Series

Best of Shorts

The Best of Shorts Awards will be presented at the Calgary International Film Festival's Awards Party, after the screening of jury-selected shorts.

Awards will be presented in the following categories – $2,500 cash prize eachBest Alberta ShortBest Overall Short (Live Action or Animated) Best Documentary Short

The winner of the Best Overall Short Film will qualify for Academy Award consideration, as the festival is now an Oscar-accredited festival for short films in the Animated and Narrative categories. The jurors will also select and present the award for the Best Short Documentary and Best Alberta.

WINNER OF BEST OVERALL SHORT (LIVE ACTION OR ANIMATED) - $2,500 AND OSCAR QUALIFICATION STATUS

WINNER OF AUDIENCE AWARD, ALBERTA SHORT

A visually stunning dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning, set during the early days of the fur trade. In man's brutal world of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the brink of extinction, until the forces of nature exact their own terrible price.

An Ontario turtle trauma centre fights for the survival of turtles facing habitat loss and motorized vehicles. This visually stunning film shows turtles in a way that few have seen before, and how the centre is working to save the world one turtle at a time.